Hey, and welcome back to this, our fourth in a series of lessons about guitar chord progressions.
Now this time, we're going to shift our perspective relative to how
guitar chords connect and we're going to do this by asking a different
question. Now in previous lessons in the first three, we asked
ourselves, "How do we connect one chord with another chord?" In this
lesson, we're going to ask the question, "How are two guitar chords
already connected?" Once we perceive this, how can we express that
connection to our listeners?
It's like when we first meet someone. The first thing we do
instinctively is to find out where we connect, what we have in common
and the more meaningful that connection is to us, the kind of more open
we are to really resonate and harmonize with someone. Resonating and
harmonizing, those are fundamentally musical experiences and they feel
good. For example, you and I have music in common and even closer to
that, we have guitar in common. We look and we find these and we
appreciate these things with each other.
To find this in relationship with our G chord and our C chord, well, you
know, look and we can see that this open ringing string, the G string,
is common to both chords and we can highlight this with what I call
Whack-a-mole. If you don't know what Whack-a-mole is yet, here's a link
that you can click on to and that will lead you to a video. If you do
know, you know that the mole pops up its head and you take the mallet
and you pop it! Whack it!
Exactly like that, we want this kind of contrast to come up so that the
mole comes up against the flat ground. We're going to emphasize this
open note which would sound something like this. In that way, we can
really hear what connects those two chords and a way that we can expand
on this is to take this common note and go just above it. Stray a little
bit and come right back or suspend and resolve. That would sound
something like this.
These are the two new ways, the two new things you can experiment with
that I have for you today regarding guitar chord progressions. Let's
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look forward to the next time that we connect.